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Rebecca

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Rebecca (1940)
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DramaFilm-NoirMystery
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
139K
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POPULARITY
3,891
391
    • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writers
    • Daphne Du Maurier(celebrated novel)
    • Robert E. Sherwood(screen play)
    • Joan Harrison(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Laurence Olivier
    • Joan Fontaine
    • George Sanders
    • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writers
    • Daphne Du Maurier(celebrated novel)
    • Robert E. Sherwood(screen play)
    • Joan Harrison(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Laurence Olivier
    • Joan Fontaine
    • George Sanders
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 394User reviews
    • 215Critic reviews
    • 86Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #237
    • Won 2 Oscars

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    Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in Rebecca (1940)
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    Laurence Olivier
    Laurence Olivier
    • 'Maxim' de Winter
    Joan Fontaine
    Joan Fontaine
    • Mrs. de Winter
    George Sanders
    George Sanders
    • Jack Favell
    Judith Anderson
    Judith Anderson
    • Mrs. Danvers
    Nigel Bruce
    Nigel Bruce
    • Major Giles Lacy
    Reginald Denny
    Reginald Denny
    • Frank Crawley
    C. Aubrey Smith
    C. Aubrey Smith
    • Colonel Julyan
    Gladys Cooper
    Gladys Cooper
    • Beatrice Lacy
    Florence Bates
    Florence Bates
    • Mrs. Van Hopper
    Melville Cooper
    Melville Cooper
    • Coroner
    Leo G. Carroll
    Leo G. Carroll
    • Dr. Baker
    Leonard Carey
    Leonard Carey
    • Ben
    Lumsden Hare
    Lumsden Hare
    • Tabbs
    Edward Fielding
    Edward Fielding
    • Frith
    Philip Winter
    • Robert
    Forrester Harvey
    Forrester Harvey
    • Chalcroft
    Bunny Beatty
    • Maid
    • (uncredited)
    Billy Bevan
    Billy Bevan
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writers
      • Daphne Du Maurier(celebrated novel)
      • Robert E. Sherwood(screen play)
      • Joan Harrison(screen play)
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    • Trivia
      Per Sir Alfred Hitchcock's instructions, Dame Judith Anderson rarely blinks her eyes while playing Mrs. Danvers.
    • Goofs
      The oath taken by the policeman at the inquest is incorrect. He quietly adds 'So help me God' at the end. These words are not used in the UK.
    • Quotes

      Mrs. de Winter: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

    • Crazy credits
      The original 1940 credits read "Selznick International presents its picturization of Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'". The credits on the re-issue version read "The Selznick Studio presents its production of Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'".
    • Alternate versions
      The opening credits were re-done (with different font) for the 1950's re-release of the movie. It is these credits that have turned up on all telecasts of the film (even as recently as 2013) and all previous video releases. The Criterion release (which is now only available through outlet stores) restores all of the credits to their original form.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Last Tycoon: Pilot (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Love's Old Sweet Song (Just a Song at Twilight)
      (1884) (uncredited)

      Music by J.L. Molloy

      Hummed by Joan Fontaine

    User reviews394

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    American Gothic
    Hitchcock's first American movie, a word, American that is, that should be put in quotes because as Hitchcock pointed out, all of the cast and almost all of the crew were British. The film has already garnered so many comments that I'll avoid repeating most of them. The plot I'm sure has been thoroughly outlined and professionally analyzed but a few points are worth emphasis.

    The plot of very precisely structured. It consists basically of a man who is the dream of many women in the 1940s audience: ruggedly handsome, intelligent, keen witted, a bit commanding but not too much, fabulously wealthy, a touch roguish, and mysterious. It's the mystery that provides the plot engine. Every incident of his past emotional life needs to be pried out of Maxim deWinter (what a name, suggesting frigidity and distance) as if it were an abcessed tooth. Each secret, as he reveals it, is a surprise to his wife. Except for the final secret uncovered in the plot, which surprises everybody. Maxim could clear the whole mystery up with an hour's worth of private conversation with his wife. But of course he doesn't, or else there would be no story. That's why Hamlet takes so long to slaughter Claudius. And why the Indians don't shoot the horses as they're chasing the stagecoach.

    The acting. Olivier is extremely good at impersonating deWinter with all his charm and challenge. George Sanders is the best cad that the movies ever produced, and he proves it again here. Mrs. Danvers has a face and an expression that looks like an ice sculpture. The implicit lesbianism in her character of course had to remain implicit, but it is still rather a shock when she tenderly unfolds Mrs. DeWinter's nightie and says smoothly, "Look, you can see my hand through it." As for Joan Fontaine, a friend in Ireland said of her performance, "She does the shivering wife very well." Precisely put. With her delicate bone structure, fragile looking limbs, and her overall ikabani flower arrangement appearance, her wide asymmetrical eyes, with one brow arching up over her pale forehead, she looks about to faint with fright through half the movie. The only thing coarse about her is her wardrobe: bulky knit sweaters over her girlish bosom, long flapping drab skirts over her small but saucy rump, and those clodhoppers she wears while clunking about the house. She does the shivering naif in at least two other films of the period -- Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Jane Eyre." In fact, rummaging through the disarranged attic that is my long-term memory, I can't really remember her "doing" any other role.

    It's the closest Hitchcock ever came to making what was then called "a woman's picture." It received a "best picture" Oscar, which went to Selznick. Something Hitchcock seemed to resent for the remainder of his life. It was a commercial and critical success and it deserved to be.
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      • April 12, 1940 (United States)
      • United States
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      • Big Sur, California, USA
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      • Selznick International Pictures
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      • Black and White

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